Soldier: Henry Rinehart
Regiment: 85th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 22
Date Entering Service: 6/5/1862
Period of Service: 3 months 18 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company 9/23/1862
Battles in which he fought:
The 85th OVI organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio between My and June 1862 to guard a large number of prisoners. Soldiers mustered out between September 23 and September 27, 1862 at expiration of service.
Other interesting information discovered:
Henry Rinehart was born in Pennsylvania on 4/4/1840. He married Sarah A Oliver in Morrow County on 9/25/1862, three children were born of this union. Henry was a clerk and a farmer while living in the Canaan and Gilead Townships of Morrow County. Sometime after 1870 he moved to Minnesota. Sarah collected a widow’s pension on 8/23/1880.
Date of Death: 8/8/1879 Place of burial: Rice Lake Cemetery, Delavan, Minnesota
Adopted By: Angie Ongalibang Researcher: Velda L Mont